FRANKFURT, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A man arrested in Germany's
southern state of Bavaria in early November after guns and
explosives were found in his car may be linked to Friday's
deadly assault in Paris, Bavaria's state premier said on
Saturday.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks in
which gunmen wearing suicide bombing belts killed 127 people in
several locations in Paris on Friday.

"We have an arrest through the dragnet, where there are
reasonable grounds for presuming that it might be related to the
matter," Horst Seehofer said in a speech at a local party
congress of the Christian Democrats.

A spokesman for the Bavarian police said they arrested the
51-year-old on Nov. 5 on a motorway near the town of Rosenheim
after investigators found eight machine guns, several handguns
and explosives in his VW Golf.

Bayerischer Rundfunk, which was first to break news of the
arrest on Saturday, said that the man was a possible accomplice
of the Paris killers, but the police spokesman dismissed this as
"pure media speculation".
(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle, additional reporting by Andreas
Rinke; Editing by Andrew Bolton and Raissa Kasolowsky)